Private housing. Why do so many items break if you want to upgrade your house?

I am trying desperately to understand why there are so many housing items that break if you take them up. I understand walls, lights etc, but why do I have to relinquish my Purification/Projection Modules, Lord of Levin Lamp and mail boxes, to list the main items?
None of these are fixtures.
Am I the only one who's rather frustrated that if I want to invest in a bigger house I have to lose minimum of 10 mil worth of items? Surely a bind to player and not bind to plot would be a better idea? If people move house in real life they get to keep the rugs :)
It makes me so sad because I really want to buy a medium but the idea of the amount of money I would lose by taking these items up just makes me sick :(
Is there any way we can get an official response from our SE mods to explain the reasoning and if there's any chance of this situation being changed in the future?

I too wish they would do away the destructible code on furniture.
We can uproot trees and plants at will with no dire effect, why does putting an Odin statue away cause it to vaporize? It's not because it's tied to being unique furniture you can only have one of, as we have bathtubs and that waterfall which are also unique yet we can safely put them away. Just being made from a rare drop material isn't just cause either, because crafting stations aren't made from them yet also get destroyed, and summoning bells and company chests do not.
I've lost several CT arches and Odin statues because I couldn't make them look nice in the restrictive lawn allotments.

Because items needed for crafting those furnishings are supposed to stay rare(ish), or otherwise take a longer time to acquire (glazenuts, for example, which require crossbreeding and a certain amount of RL time). If the furniture was reusable, it would eventually lead to a higher and faster saturation of such mats on the market which, in term, takes away from their exclusiveness.

Yeah...I found this a bit odd as well. I get that some items are super rare and that might justify those breaking, but what about stables and mailboxes? Those don't seem all too rare or hard to uproot from your property (well, stable maybe but definitely not a mailbox).

Mailbox needs Mog Whisker, I'm guessing anything that Is crafted with "rare" uberlewt can't be picked back up.

No you're not alone cos this system of having things destroyed on picking them up really never made much sense in the first place. If its to stop or prohibit reselling? Okay i can understand and respect that but a simple change in the system to where the items once placed are bound to the FC or owner of the house thus making the items unsellable would fix any and all of those issues.

Though part of me does wanna believe its another gate by SE to push players into redoing content if they upgrade their homes.

I definitely agree that the restriction needs to get lifted.. its pointless.

I understand those items being bound to you. Once used you can't trade or sell, but I don't understand them being bound to a plot of land. Nope sorry don't make sense to me.

Is there a list somewhere of housing items that can't be moved? From what I know, its basically any item that requires a primal/trials drop. (i.e. titans heart or ads frame). Anything else?

Just get Squish or Silvi to make them for you again.
#craftgodsofcoeurl

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Originally Posted by NyneAlexander

Is there a list somewhere of housing items that can't be moved? From what I know, its basically any item that requires a primal/trials drop. (i.e. titans heart or ads frame). Anything else?

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All the crafted workstations too.

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Originally Posted by Tsuwu

Just get Squish or Silvi to make them for you again.
#craftgodsofcoeurl

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I have zero intention of buying the mats again, it's too big of a loss. I just won't upgrade the house until I figure out a reasonable solution. I want my basement to stay exactly the same so unless I suddenly get lucky with drops it's not gonna happen.

Can we please, please get any word from SE as to whether this is likely to change, ever? I really want to upgrade but I'm looking at losing at least 15 mil in items if I do. I can't be the only person in this situation.

They're intentional gil sinks. Yoshi-P doesn't want to force players to use consumables in dungeons and raid parties, so they've turned all of the vanity systems into huge gil sinks. You know, to prevent RMT.

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Originally Posted by Chasely

They're intentional gil sinks. Yoshi-P doesn't want to force players to use consumables in dungeons and raid parties, so they've turned all of the vanity systems into huge gil sinks. You know, to prevent RMT.

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I wish people would learn what an actual money sink is. A gil sink in this case would be if the rare mats could be bought from NPCs. An NPC selling you the item for the arc from CT for 30,0000 gil. That's a gil sink because every time someone buys that item, the 30K gil is removed from the economy.

That's different from buying rare materials from other players on the MBs or over general chat. All you're doing is moving money from one player to another, NOT causing said amount to leave the economy.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

I wish people would learn what an actual money sink is. A gil sink in this case would be if the rare mats could be bought from NPCs. An NPC selling you the item for the arc from CT for 30,0000 gil. That's a gil sink because every time someone buys that item, the 30K gil is removed from the economy.

That's different from buying rare materials from other players on the MBs or over general chat. All you're doing is moving money from one player to another, NOT causing said amount to leave the economy.

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I wish people would learn what RMT means. Those items are primarily being farmed by RMTs, which eventually get banned. When that happens they are removing money from the economy. RMTs come in many shapes and sizes. Endgame FCs which charge money for runs are often also selling said gil to RMT companies, or selling the money themselves. They do not let players lot those items for the cost of the run.

Just to elaborate,
The way the system works now, if I were to place an item and try to pick it back up into my inventory the item breaks.
The item is Bound to the House, Private Room.

Most house items bind to the player when placed and cant be sold on the market once bound.
What the OP is asking for is for the item to bind to the player instead when placed in the House, Room. Like other items.

This way if she wants to invest in a larger house she is able to transport those said items.

I too would like a GM/Dev response since this has been bugging me for some time. It greatly effects people with private rooms, if the FC dies those rare items go poof.

Quite a lot of things about this game don't really make sense, especially on the housing front. There's no real reason for them to get destroyed on pickup since you can't resell them or trade them once placed anyway, aside form the obvious time and money sink to get them back.

Well just think when the servers take a hit one day and they do a merge just hope its not your server you own a house on, just think all that gil and private rooms will not transfer with you and you lose it all.

I agree 100%

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Originally Posted by Vejjiegirl

Just to elaborate,
The way the system works now, if I were to place an item and try to pick it back up into my inventory the item breaks.
The item is Bound to the House, Private Room.

Most house items bind to the player when placed and cant be sold on the market once bound.
What the OP is asking for is for the item to bind to the player instead when placed in the House, Room. Like other items.

This way if she wants to invest in a larger house she is able to transport those said items.

I too would like a GM/Dev response since this has been bugging me for some time. It greatly effects people with private rooms, if the FC dies those rare items go poof.

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^EXACTLY!^

Yeah, this is actually pretty silly. My FC wants to upgrade to a Medium plot someday, but it's never going to happen because we're not willing to lose items.

unfinished feature i'd say, being rushed because they already promised it

i want to buy large but my medium fc house have almost all rare furniture, really stupid